Space Exploration

If we assumed humanity was a viral infection of the planet Earth, and assumed that Earth's increasing ecological toxicity was in fact an immune response to our presence (global warming is Earth's fever), could we rethink space exploration and colonization thusly?

TAE thinks this is a pretty fair way to plan extraterrestrial colonization. Viruses spread from person to person by causing themselves to be expelled, either in fluids or in the air (basically still in fluids), which is then put into contact with other living creatures. If those living creatures are the right species, the virus can take hold in the new host.

The solution, of course, is to spew small seed groups of humans at random into space. Those humans, of course, are simply fertilized embryoes, who will be raised by robots once a fertile planet is reached. Although a massive 99.9997% of those humans will never see the light of an extraterrestrial day, a tiny handful will, and our species will have found a new host planet.


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